- the act, process, or result of putting the elements of something back together into a whole; reconstruction: Although places and events are concrete, our mental reconstitutions of them are often inaccurate.The restorative work aimed at a full reconstitution of the building’s medieval character, including furniture and other objects.
- the act or process of returning a dehydrated or concentrated food or other substance to its normal liquid state by adding water: In the Apollo moon program of the late 1960s, hot water was available for rapid reconstitution of freeze-dried foods by the astronauts.
